Another item from my dad’s papers.

It’s a menu from Jenkin’s Indian Shop, a sandwich shop in Long Beach, California, back in the early 1930s. The shop was located at 4925 East 2nd Street.

I opened the menu for this photo. On the right, the front and back of the menu cover. On the left, the price list.

I’m guessing the menu was from 1931 or 1932, as my dad was finishing high school. He and his friends signed it. He signed with a simple “J Lind”. Next to his signature is Bill Wagner. Bill and my dad kept in touch their whole lives. When my dad was in the nursing home, he immediately identified Bill Wagner in a photo of his high school class. I can make out Dewitt Payne, Perry Black, Al Johnson, Bob Place, and a few other names that I can’t quite decipher.

Prices ranged from 20 cents for a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, and up to 35 cents for a tuna pimento cheese double decker. That must have been an interesting sandwich!

The choice of drinks was very limited. Coffee, tea, milk, hot chocolate. But then there were the Thirst Quenchers, from mint limeaid to Old Bohemian Brew and White Rock, the latter the only one over a quarter.

And heed the warning: “No table service less than 10 cents.”

The building is now the site of both a Jamba Juice and The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf store, according to my quick search via Google Maps street view.

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